Articles relating to American exceptionalism, the theory that the United States is inherently different from other nations. [1] This stems from its emergence from the American Revolution, becoming what the political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset called "the first new nation" [2] and developing a uniquely American ideology, " Americanism". This ideology is based on liberty, equality before the law, individual responsibility, republicanism, representative democracy, and laissez-faire economics. This ideology itself is often referred to as "American exceptionalism." [3] Under this other definition, America is seen as being superior to other nations or having a unique mission to transform the world. [4]
The term was originally coined in 1929 by Joseph Stalin, as a critique of a revisionist faction of American communists that argued that the American political climate was unique and made it an "exception" to certain elements of Marxist theory. [5]
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